Re: Large disk partition over 300GB
Pierre Etchemaite (petchema@concept-micro.com)
Thu, 15 Jul 1999 07:51:17 +0200 (MET DST)
Le 13-Jul-99 à 17:59:49, Thomas Davis écrivait :
> Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
>> Ofcourse you realize that setting -m to 1 or worse, 0, will result
>> in a badly fragmented disk when it fills up and really bad performance.
>
> BUT, when it's a 300 GB partition, does the filesystem really need 5% of
> 300GB?
>
> ie, 300GB*5% = 15GB reserved space.
>
> That's kinda large and wasteful, isn't it?
>
> Whereas 300GB*1% = 3GB reserved space, which is still a large amount of
> disk space to hold in reserve for "fragmentation" purposes.
3Gb scattered over 300Gb can be a very sparse set, it is really the percentage
of free space that matters.
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